SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug. 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands celebrates its fortieth anniversary. The President of the Parliament, Gustavo Matos, wanted to recall that on August 10, 1982 “our self-government started from the responsible work and high-mindedness of those people who decided to bravely face this project at a complex moment in our history”.
Gustavo Matos maintains that today, in this tenth legislature, “we can affirm that we have lived through the period of greatest prosperity in the history of the Canary Islands, with structural problems and challenges still pending such as demographics, the fight against inequality, the diversification of the economic model or the digital transformation to achieve a Canary Islands of opportunities”.
He stressed that it has been “forty years in which we have been building an ambitious space for coexistence, tolerance and respect, strengthening a system of guarantees and freedoms as a result of an effort shared by several generations of people with deep democratic convictions.”
The 2018 reform, Matos indicated, “comes to reinforce that jurisdiction, from our aspiration to continue on the path of a stronger Canary Islands.” The president pointed out that this commemoration is also “a perfect moment for reflection, to take stock, put on the high beams and imagine what the Canary Islands we want for the next forty years.”
Gustavo Matos considered “undoubted” that after these decades of “construction of the building of autonomy in our archipelago”, self-government “has brought with it the best years in the history of the islands.”
